TeknTrash is a robotics company founded 2018, based in United Kingdom, developing 1 robot primarily in the Humanoid category.
CAPITAL & EVIDENCE
TeknTrash has no confirmed funding round on file and has 1 cited customer but no deployment on record.
Shipped
1customer cited
named in a public source · no deployment on record
- Sharp Group· 2025roboticstomorrow.com ↗
A deployment is recorded when a public source names both the customer and the robot, or the maker confirms it. Nothing here counts against TeknTrash.
In Humanoid, UBTECH Robotics, Agility Robotics and SoftBank Robotics have deployment evidence on file.
Add a deployment →Robotic solutions for trash handling
TeknTrash builds robotic solutions for waste handling and sorting, targeting recycling plants and material-recovery facilities.
Company facts
- HQ
- London, United Kingdom
- Founded
- 2018 · 8 yrs
- Website
- www.tekntrash.com
- Contact
- info@tekntrash.com
RoboScore
49.20 RoboScore + 0.00 Momentum· Adequate evidence
Products 65%, Depth 5%, Evidence 30% set the number, and every rated company has all three. Attention has no weight of its own — it is one of the two things Evidence is built from, and it can only ever add. Activity and Readiness describe the brand but never move it. A value we don't have reads —, never zero. Momentum is independently collected news coverage, worth at most 15 points and never a deduction — a maker we have heard nothing about keeps its full RoboScore. Claiming or paying moves nothing.
6 of 6 factors known. How it's calculated
On the company boards
- #80 of 107·Humanoid·best robot 52.24 + depth 0.00 + news 0.00 = total 52.24
A board total ranks makers within one category. It is built from the best robot's RoboScore, a capped credit for more ranked robots, and news. It is not this company's RoboIndex above. How boards work
Awards & recognition
- World Economic Forum UpLink — featured innovatortekntrash.com ↗
- Google for Startups / Google Cloud — recognized example of cloud-based roboticscloud.google.com ↗
- Microsoft for Startups memberf6s.com ↗
Milestones
Secured RMB 2 million government-backed investment through a Huzhou innovation program to scale AI robotics for recycling.
Launched the ALPHA humanoid pilot with Sharp Group at its Rainham, East London facility (2,800 tonnes/week) — the stated launchpad for a 1,000-plant European rollout within 24 months.
TeknTrash Robotics founded in London to bring robotics to dangerous, unsanitary waste-handling environments.
Press coverage
- Humanoid Robots for Waste Management: Interview with Al Costa, CEO of TeknTrash
Robot Magazine · Jun 2026
- TeknTrash Robotics and Sharp Group Launch Groundbreaking Humanoid Robot Pilot for Smarter Recycling
RoboticsTomorrow · Jun 2025
- TeknTrash Robotics and Sharp Group Launch Groundbreaking Humanoid Robot Pilot for Smarter Recycling
UK Tech News · Apr 2025
- TeknTrash customer case study
Google Cloud
Public loss record
UK product recalls reach the Office for Product Safety and Standards, which we read. Workplace incidents sit with the HSE, whose register we cannot reach.
Updates
- Funding
TeknTrash Robotics Secures RMB 2M Government-Backed investment to Scale AI Robotics for Recycling
TeknTrash Robotics, a UK-based AI robotics company developing humanoid automation solutions for the recycling and waste management sector, has secured RMB 2 million from a China government-backed support through a Huzhou-based innovation and entrepreneurship programme
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